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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American mystery thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. The setting is shifted from California to Louisiana.
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A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a blackmail scheme.
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- Stuart Rosenberg
- PG
- Paul Newman
It's too bad "The Drowning Pool" only occasionally comes alive, because it has some nice Macdonald characters in it. There's the worried wife ( Joanne Woodward) who hires Harper in the first place and spends her afternoons and evenings in a haze of booze, pills and insecurity.
Jan 27, 2022 · The Drowning Pool is little more than a footnote today, but it remains a fascinating pivot point between Newman the superstar and Newman the elder statesman. TRIVIA: Newman, Woodward, and Francoisa had previously appeared together in The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
Private detective Lew Harper is in the Louisiana bayou working on a blackmail case that involves the daughter of his old girl friend Iris Devereau. While he is trying to solve the case, he becomes mixed up in a power struggle between Iris and a local oil tycoon.
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Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper!
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